Chris eternal optimist & itinerant sheep shearer moves with his wife Ana to a mountain farm in Las Alpujarras an oddball region in the south of Spain Misadventures gleefully unfold as Chris discovers that the owner has no intention of leaving & meets their neighbours an engaging mix of peasant farmers & shepherds New Age travellers & ex-pats Their daughter Chloe is born linking them irrevocably to their new life The hero of the piece however is the farm itself
- a patch of mountain studded with olive almond & lemon groves sited on the wrong side of a river with no access road water supply or electricity Could life offer much better than that?